Education helps fight HIV or AIDS, end poverty, and empower women, because lots of girls in Nairobi do not and cannot receive proper education when they are young and the time when they have to study, it's all because there is a severe discrimination between girls and boys in Nairobi. So, when girls become adults afterwards, they are vulnerable to be infected by disease like AIDS or HIV because they don't have any knowledge about those diseases. They don't know how to prevent them and they also don't know what should they do when they are infected by those diseases. Also, in order to prevent themselves from being harassed or abused by men, education is the first and foremost thing that they need. Every person has a right to be educated no matter what condition they are in. Also, when the girls get education, they get higher opportunities to get jobs because they have more knowledge and skills. Also, education is needed in order to get rid of sexual discrimination. Therefore, we think education is the most fundamental and important solution for solving infectious diseases, escape from poverty, and empower women's status in the society. We think improvement of education would be able to solve or lessen other problems such as diseases and poverty.
Message
Lack of the education in poor countries is the serious problem that is associated with the human rights. Every single person in the world should be treated equally as a same identity of a 'human'. However, some people in the world, especially in the undeveloped countries are having difficulties to have those privileges of getting the proper primary education because of the poverty - lack of the money - so the government do not have enough schools built near the children's house so that it is easy for them to go to school and there are also lack of the teaching equipments. Also, there are not many volunteer teachers whom could help the children get educated. To be specific, non-educated people can easily suffer from diseases or unemployment because of the lack of the education. Thus, we think that lack of education is extremely serious problem through all over the world. That is why should more and more people have to know about the problem of lacking education over the poor countries and have knowledge about it and then that would help us to help them much easily because there are lots of people agreeing it.
Goal
Our goal is to raise awareness in our community about the current state of girls' education in Nairobi, Kenya. Meanwhile, we want to learn about this issue as well.
Short-term plan for achieving our goal
At first, we can make a separate Wikispace about the severity of the education in the poor countries and advertise by presenting it to the students in the school who actually do not have lots of knowledge and information about the worldwide education problem. (especially the lack of education for girls in the developing countries.) We are going to create our own Wikispace and keep updating it. Also, we can go to 6th graders' advisory class and provide information about this issue and our thoughts through mini-presentations, so that they can be inspired to help us to ameliorate the situation. We can also tell the students our Wikispace so that they can get more information. Posters or flyers could be made in order to raise public awareness of this issue.
Long-term plan for achieving our goal
We want to maintain contributing to the amelioration of the girls’ education in Nairobi even after we finish this global issues project. After gathering sponsors and supporters for our organization, we could have them to continue to carry out actions in order to improve education for girls in Nairobi. We could also join governmental organizations related to our organization. Other organizations that support us may execute some fund raising.
Resources needed for this action plan
Organizations related to our global issue, and their contact information;
Action Plan
Purpose
Education helps fight HIV or AIDS, end poverty, and empower women, because lots of girls in Nairobi do not and cannot receive proper education when they are young and the time when they have to study, it's all because there is a severe discrimination between girls and boys in Nairobi. So, when girls become adults afterwards, they are vulnerable to be infected by disease like AIDS or HIV because they don't have any knowledge about those diseases. They don't know how to prevent them and they also don't know what should they do when they are infected by those diseases. Also, in order to prevent themselves from being harassed or abused by men, education is the first and foremost thing that they need. Every person has a right to be educated no matter what condition they are in. Also, when the girls get education, they get higher opportunities to get jobs because they have more knowledge and skills. Also, education is needed in order to get rid of sexual discrimination. Therefore, we think education is the most fundamental and important solution for solving infectious diseases, escape from poverty, and empower women's status in the society. We think improvement of education would be able to solve or lessen other problems such as diseases and poverty.
Message
Lack of the education in poor countries is the serious problem that is associated with the human rights. Every single person in the world should be treated equally as a same identity of a 'human'. However, some people in the world, especially in the undeveloped countries are having difficulties to have those privileges of getting the proper primary education because of the poverty - lack of the money - so the government do not have enough schools built near the children's house so that it is easy for them to go to school and there are also lack of the teaching equipments. Also, there are not many volunteer teachers whom could help the children get educated. To be specific, non-educated people can easily suffer from diseases or unemployment because of the lack of the education. Thus, we think that lack of education is extremely serious problem through all over the world. That is why should more and more people have to know about the problem of lacking education over the poor countries and have knowledge about it and then that would help us to help them much easily because there are lots of people agreeing it.
Goal
Our goal is to raise awareness in our community about the current state of girls' education in Nairobi, Kenya. Meanwhile, we want to learn about this issue as well.
Short-term plan for achieving our goal
At first, we can make a separate Wikispace about the severity of the education in the poor countries and advertise by presenting it to the students in the school who actually do not have lots of knowledge and information about the worldwide education problem. (especially the lack of education for girls in the developing countries.) We are going to create our own Wikispace and keep updating it. Also, we can go to 6th graders' advisory class and provide information about this issue and our thoughts through mini-presentations, so that they can be inspired to help us to ameliorate the situation. We can also tell the students our Wikispace so that they can get more information. Posters or flyers could be made in order to raise public awareness of this issue.
Long-term plan for achieving our goal
We want to maintain contributing to the amelioration of the girls’ education in Nairobi even after we finish this global issues project. After gathering sponsors and supporters for our organization, we could have them to continue to carry out actions in order to improve education for girls in Nairobi. We could also join governmental organizations related to our organization. Other organizations that support us may execute some fund raising.
Resources needed for this action plan
Organizations related to our global issue, and their contact information;
FAWE (Forum for African Women Educationalists)
MYWO (Maendeleo Ya Wanawake Organization)
Contact information;
FAWE fawe@fawe.org
MYWO mywo@mywokenya.org or mywo@users.africaonline.co.ke or elthomas@aed.org
Division of responsibilities
Julie - search for the related organizations and their contact information
Katrina - make the separate Wikispace
Wendy - contact the related organization supporters to sponsor our organization by the contact e-mail address of the related organization
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